List of Canadian films of 2012
This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2012:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| L'Affaire Dumont | Daniel Grou | Marc-André Grondin, Geneviève Brouillette, Marilyn Castonguay | Drama | |
| All That You Possess | Bernard Émond | Patrick Drolet, Gilles Renaud, Isabelle Vincent | Drama | |
| Antiviral | Brandon Cronenberg | Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell | Horror | Made with U.S. financing |
| Before My Heart Falls | Sébastien Rose | Sophie Lorain, Sébastien Ricard, Alexis Martin | Drama | |
| Bestiaire | Denis Côté | Documentary | ||
| Blackbird | Jason Buxton | Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Jeremy Akerman | Drama | |
| The Bossé Empire | Claude Desrosiers | Guy A. Lepage, Claude Legault, Élise Guilbault | Comedy | |
| The Boxing Girls of Kabul | Ariel Nasr | National Film Board Documentary | Best short documentary, 1st Canadian Screen Awards | |
| Bydlo | Patrick Bouchard | Animated short | ||
| Camion | Rafaël Ouellet | Julien Poulin, Patrice Dubois, Stéphane Breton | Comedy, drama | Prix Jutra – Actor, Musical Score |
| Catimini | Nathalie Saint-Pierre | Émilie Bierre | Drama | |
| Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg | Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Emily Hampshire, Sara Gorden, Paul Giamatti | Original Score, Song-1st Canadian Screen Awards; Canada-Italy-France-Portugal co-production | |
| Chained | Jennifer Lynch | Vincent D'Onofrio, Julia Ormond | Thriller | Direct to DVD |
| Crackin' Down Hard | Mike Clattenburg | Nicolas Wright, Yoursie Thomas | Short comedy | |
| The Crimes of Mike Recket | Bruce Sweeney | Nicholas Lea, Gabrielle Rose, Agam Darshi, Jillian Fargey | Drama | |
| Demoni | Theodore Ushev | Animated short | ||
| The Disappeared | Shandi Mitchell | Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey | Drama | |
| Edmond Was a Donkey | Franck Dion | Animated short | ||
| Ésimésac | Luc Picard | Nicola-Frank Vachon, Marie Brassard, Isabel Richler, Luc Picard, Gildor Roy | Prix Jutra – Costumes | |
| Fair Sex | Martin Laroche | Marie-Évelyne Lessard, Marc-André Brunet, Normand Daoust | Drama | |
| First Snow | Michaël Lalancette | François Bernier, David Boutin, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Benoît Gouin, Louise Latraverse, Marie-Laurence Moreau, Noémie Yelle | Short drama | |
| For Dorian | Rodrigo Barriuso | Ron Lea, Dylan Harman | Short drama | |
| Frost | Jeremy Ball | Emily Piggford | Short drama | |
| The Fruit Hunters | Yung Chang | Bill Pullman | Documentary produced with the National Film Board and CBC-TV | Inspired by the book by Adam Gollner; made for TV. |
| Goon | Michael Dowse | Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel | Comedy | |
| Herd Leader | Chloé Robichaud | Ève Duranceau | Short drama | |
| High Chicago | Alfons Adetuyi | Colin Salmon, Kevin Hanchard, Karen LeBlanc, Sebastian Pigott | Drama | Direct to DVD |
| Home Again | Sudz Sutherland | Lyriq Bent, Stephan James | Drama | |
| In No Particular Order | Terry Miles & Kristine Cofsky | Kristine Cofsky, Sonja Bennett, Ben Cotton, Mike Dopud, Stephen Lobo, Carmen Lavigne | Comedy-drama | |
| Ina Litovski | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, André Turpin | Marine Johnson, Geneviève Alarie | Short drama | |
| Inch'Allah | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | Évelyne Brochu, Sivan Levy, Sabrina Ouazani | Drama | Canada-France co-production |
| ' | James Swirsky & Lisanne Pajot | Documentary | ||
| Inescapable | Ruba Nadda | Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Oded Fehr, Fadia Nadda | Political drama | Canada-South Africa co-production |
| Inner Worlds Outer Worlds | Daniel Schmidt & Patrick Sweeney | Documentary | Winner, Award of Excellence, Canada International Film Festival | |
| I, Pet Goat II | Louis Lefebvre | Animated short | Ocelot Robot Film Festival 2012 - Best Short Film | |
| Just As I Remember | Andrew Moir | Documentary | ||
| Keep a Modest Head | Deco Dawson | Short documentary | ||
| Karakara | Claude Gagnon | Gabriel Arcand, Youki Kudoh | Drama | |
| Krivina | Igor Drljaca | Jasmin Geljo, Goran Slavkovic | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival world premiere |
| Last Chance | Paul-Émile d'Entremont | National Film Board Documentary | ||
| Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature Film; Cannes Film Festival – Queer Palm, Un Certain Regard, Best Actress |
| The Lesser Blessed | Anita Doron | Joel Evans, Chloe Rose, Kiowa Gordon, Benjamin Bratt | Drama | |
| Let the Daylight Into the Swamp | Jeffrey St. Jules | National Film Board 3D short | ||
| Liverpool | Manon Briand | Stéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre Dubé | Comedy/crime | |
| Lowlife | Seth Smith | Chik White | Drama/horror | |
| Margarita | Laurie Colbert, Dominique Cardona | Nicola Correia-Damude, Patrick McKenna, Christine Horne, Maya Ritter | Comedy-drama | |
| Mars et Avril | Martin Villeneuve | Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage | Sci-fi fantasy | |
| Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta | Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Siddarth, Rajat Kappor, Rahul Bose | Drama | A Canada-U.K. co-production based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. |
| Moving Day | Mike Clattenburg | Will Sasso, Gabriel Hogan, Jonny Harris, Charlie Murphy, Victor Garber, Gabrielle Miller | Comedy | |
| My Awkward Sexual Adventure | Sean Garrity | Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Sarah Manninen | Comedy-drama | |
| The Near Future | Sophie Goyette | Patrice Berthomier | Short drama | |
| Omertà | Luc Dionne | Michel Côté, Rachelle Lefevre, Patrick Huard, René Angélil, Stéphane Rousseau | Crime drama | Feature film sequel to the 1990s drama series Omertà |
| Over My Dead Body | Brigitte Poupart | Dave St-Pierre | Documentary | |
| Payback | Jennifer Baichwal | Margaret Atwood, Raj Patel | National Film Board Documentary | Based on the book ' |
| Éric Tessier | Antoine Olivier Pilon, Alice Morel-Michaud, Julie Le Breton, Guy Nadon | Sports comedy-drama | ||
| The People of the Kattawapiskak River | Alanis Obomsawin | National Film Board Documentary | Attawapiskat housing crisis | |
| ' | Paul W. S. Anderson | Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Colin Salmon | Horror | Canada-German co-production; Golden Reel Award; shot in 3D |
| Rufus | Dave Schultz | Rory J. Saper, Kim Coates, David James Elliott, Kelly Rowan, Merritt Patterson, Richard Harmon | Drama/horror | |
| The Secret Disco Revolution | Jamie Kastner | Documentary | ||
| ' | Michael J. Bassett | Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Deborah Kara Unger, Martin Donovan. Malcolm McDowell, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sean Bean | Horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
| Small Blind | Simon Galiero | Micheline Bernard, Christine Beaulieu, Julien Poulin | Drama | |
| Still Mine | Michael McGowan | James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold, Jonathan Potts | Drama | Toronto International Film Festival screening only; general release in 2013. Actor -1st Canadian Screen Awards. |
| Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada | Karen Cho | National Film Board Documentary | Best documentary, Whistler Film Festival | |
| Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley | Rebecca Jenkins, Sarah Polley | National Film Board Documentary | Premiered at 69th Venice International Film Festival; Documentary-1st Canadian Screen Awards; TFCA – Best Canadian Film |
| The Torrent | Simon Lavoie | Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon, Dominique Quesnel, Laurence Leboeuf | Drama | |
| Tower | Kazik Radwanski | Derek Bogart, Nicole Fairbairn, Deborah Sawyer | Drama | |
| Two Hands to Mouth | Michael DeCarlo | Art Hindle and an ensemble cast | Dark comedy drama | - |
| Vanishing Point | Stephen A. Smith & Julia Szucs | Navarana K'avigak | National Film Board Documentary | |
| War Witch | Kim Nguyen | Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda | Drama about child soldiers | Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film |
| With Jeff | Marie-Ève Juste | Laury Verdieu, Liridon Rashiti | Short drama | |
| We Were Children | Tim Wolochatiuk | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Documenting experiences in the residential school system | |
| The World Before Her | Nisha Pahuja | Documentary |